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STRANGLING

Job mentions strangling in connection with Ahithophel’s suicide (2 Sam. 17:23; Heb. ḥānaq, generally translated “hanged”), remarking that he himself would prefer death by strangling than continuation of his suffering (Job 7:15). Nahum speaks of strangling as a lion’s method of killing prey (Nah. 2:12[MT 13]). The Mosaic prohibition of eating blood (Gen. 9:4; Lev. 3:17; Deut. 12:23-25) led to specific methods of slaughtering in such a way that blood was drained off. Thus strangling was excluded, and what was not slaughtered in the prescribed swift fashion was considered “strangled” (m. µul. 1:2). The prohibition of “blood” and “what is strangled” was passed on to the Gentile Christians of Syria and Asia Minor as an accommodation to the scruples of Jews (Gk. pniktós; Acts 15:20, 29; 21:25).






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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